Your smart TV is (presumably) on your local network

often, but not always. sometimes the TV is at a different house, when you are a guest or at a second property

oh, in your firewall. I think I can count the percents on one hand about how much of jellyfin users run a firewall applience besides it

I’m not exposing jellyfin, but for sure I wouldn’t let my plex server even see the internet (I bet iy wouldn’t even work that way).

jellyfin is perfectly accessible everywhere it needs to be. been using a VPN on my phone for ages for all traffic.

thanks but no. I like my privacy more

is that a feature in Jellyfin? and since when do all ISP subscribers have names in DNS?

but if you take normal precautions (i.e. don’t run this next to your classified information storage)

oh yeah I’m pretty sure the majority of users bought a dedicated machine for Jellyfin

wireguard has been going fine here for 5+ years. only problems were when that garbage raspberry crashed as it always does (but that’s an issue with the hardware) and when the IP changes, but that’s mitigated by dynamic DNS

aaaand now you smart tv can’t connect. none of them. the clients dont even support http basic auth creds put into the URL for some crazy reason.

for advanced HTTP-level authentication you would need to run a reverse proxy on the TV’s network that would add the authentication info. for the VPN idea you would need to tunnel the TV’s network’s internet connection at the router. or set up a gateway address in the TVs network settings that would do that. or use a reverse proxy here too so that it repeats the request to the real server.

but honestly, this is the real and only secure way anyway. I wouldn’t be comfortable to expose jellyfin even if the devs are real experts. I mean vulns get discovered, in dotnet, jellyfin dependencies, linux filesystem, and reverse proxy, and honestly who has time to always tightly keep up to date with all that.

that’s not to discount the seriousness of the issue though, it’s a real shame that jellyfin is so much against security

I remember when they were arguing that you don’t need a VPN or proxy basic authentication in front of it because their team knows how to write secure code…